The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1887-12-22

at Syracuse, last week, one OF the
Resolutions adopted declared, ''The
conflict between law and good order,
the saloons and the brewers and dis
tillers who supply and maintain them,
has now reached a point where the
Republican party must either accept
the issue and declare its position of
determined hostility to these organized
enemies, and the sacred institutions
of our land, or abandon its claims to
be the party Of law and order. They
must be opposed to vice and crime,
Anarchy, Nihilism and Socialism and
their attendant evils"
There can be little doubt that the
Republican party will be commpelled
to pursue vigorously in the future,
the line of uncompromising warfare
against the liquor traffic. Good men
of all parties are turning their atten-
ton to the necessity of effective work
against the monster evil. Public
sentiment is rapidly assuming an
attitude of bitter hostility to the
awful crime, and as fast as public
sentiment grows against it, so fast is
the time of its ultimate overthrow ap-
preaching. People are throwing away
all doubts and quibbles regarding this
dangerous subject, and show disposi-
ton to grapple with it as it is. The
Temperance cause has been retarded,
heretofore by the necessity of compro-
mise with the liquor influence. The
friends Of Temperance have believed
-or many Of them, at least-that
'half a loaf is better than none,t
hence the unsatisfactory conditions
of Temperance measures-so called at
least-that have been submitted. The
day Of mo compromise" is approach
ing and approaching rapidly.
You ask us if we expect to see the
day of absolute Prohibition, and we
answer, not in all respects. That
the time will come when no
liquor will be drunk or sold, is scarce
ly within the bounds of reasonable
hope. But that the day will come
when the liquor crime will be at least
as succe' sfully prohibited as the mur-
der crime and the horse-stealing crime,
we believe to be one Of the probabili-
ties. 1t has been the boast Of the
liquor criminals that every thing not
intended for the filing of the pockets
Of lazy loafers who will not work,
would be unc unconstitutional. This class
Of heathen could not understand how
anything connected with human gov
ernment could condemn the right of
one man to destroy another for gain.
But this fond hope of the bloated
devils has been wiped out by the high
est legal authority ia this country.
We are in the line of progress. The
autocratic liquor interest is becoming
interested, if not curious. It has sud
denly discovered that there may be,
after all, God in lsrael. Every State
has the right to prohibit the curse
within it's borders, and this places the
battle in dangerous condition for
the liquor interest. Had the prohibi-
tory amendment been submitted with
out other amendments few years
ago, it would have carried beyond
question. This is feature Of public
opinion which has given much con-
Germ to the Devils Agents in this
State, and they dread a recurrence of
such a test The time is coming when
more stringent temperance measures
will have to be taken, and the Repub-
lican party is more likely than any
other to take them. As a party with
record of moral and intellectual
growth, and a championship of every
good work, the grand party which
shot slavery to death will doubtless be
in at the death of this greater mon
ster.